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One day seminar and public evening debate on social media activism in the Arab World and China, organised by the Centre for Globalisation Studies of the University of Amsterdam, Monday 21 January 2013.

One of the four main themes of the N5M3 is the 'Post-Governmental
Organisation', a title that is meant more polemically than
descriptively. The 'PGO' label raises the question of the practical,
political and ethical impli cations of strong, potentially global,
independent organisations. The theme will be approached from different
critical, analytical and ironic perspectives in a public debate, and
the PGO Design-Show ("Get Organised!").

We start with the current strategy debates of the so-called 'anti-globalisation movement', the biggest emerging political force for decades. In Part II we will look into strategies of critical new media culture in the post-speculative phase after dotcommania. Four phases of the global movement are becoming visible, all of which have distinct political, artistic and aesthetic qualities.

The World Social Forum, organized twice in Porto Alegre 2001 and 2002,
not only prompted a flurry of autonomous self-organization, crossborder
organization, and creative media interventions. It also initiated an
intense process of analysis and reflection on the tricky question of
a 'global' dynamic of self-organization.

Reclaim the Streets (RtS) cannot be understood as a campaign, although
some of its methods are very similar. There are now RtS groups in
thirty cities organising illegal street parties. Most of these groups
only exist for the event, and many of the activists are involved in
local campaigns during the rest of the year. There is no membership or
official line although many would like to see a wider global strategy.
As a movement, RtS is only four years old, and it could grow in
unpredictable ways.

It wasn't exactly the right place nor really the right time to launch a
political campaign which publicly called for a series of offenses
against the law, yet when the call "No one is illegal" went out exactly
five years ago at documentaX, the usual reservations counted little. In
the Orangerie which had been temporarily arranged as a media laboratory,
at the end of the visitors' course of the well-known Kassler art
exhibition, a dozen political and media activists from all Germany's
bigger cities met up at the end of June 1997 in order to publish an
appeal.

Saskia Sassen's research and writing focuses on globalization
(including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration,
global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked
technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from
current transnational conditions. In her research she has focused on
the unexpected and the counterintuitive as a way to cut through
established 'truths.'

The third edition of the Next 5 Minutes revolved around four core themes:- The Art of Campaiging- The Post-Governmental Organisation (PGO)- How Low Can You Go? The Technical and the Tactical- Tactical Education

Migration and media-activists gather with theorists and labour
organizers to discuss and share best practices in the fight against
precarity and insecure labour conditions. Sharing inspiring examples of
social justice unionism and creative campaigning like Justice for Janitors in the U.S. and
Cleaners For a Better Future in the Netherlands.

Indymedia is the name given to a particular network with a rather uneven
global reach, to which many hundreds of local independent media
projects, mostly web-based, have been affiliated at one time or another.
It is also the name for a particular approach to news media - one that
attempts to avoid hierarchal production and hence promote grassroots
reports on events.